PAINTER

Rosso Fiorentino

1494 - 1540

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Giovanni Battista di Jacopo (8 March 1495 – 14 November 1540), known as Rosso Fiorentino (meaning "Florentine Redhead" in Italian) or Il Rosso ("The Redhead"), was an Italian Mannerist painter who worked in oil and fresco and belonged to the Florentine school. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rosso Fiorentino has received more than 179,995 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Rosso Fiorentino is the 219th most popular painter (up from 251st in 2019), the 748th most popular biography from Italy (up from 839th in 2019) and the 57th most popular Italian Painter.

Rosso Fiorentino is famous for its red-figure vases.

Memorability Metrics

  • 180k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 65.28

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.23

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Rosso Fiorentinos by language

Over the past year Rosso Fiorentino has had the most page views in the with 28,093 views, followed by English (20,226), and French (11,331). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Chinese (293.38%), Norwegian (Nynorsk) (69.83%), and Estonian (60.39%)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Rosso Fiorentino ranks 219 out of 2,023Before him are Antoine-Jean Gros, H. R. Giger, Pierre Bonnard, Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, Ulrika Eleonora of Denmark, and Petrus Christus. After him are Saskia van Uylenburgh, Thomas Gainsborough, Jeanne Hébuterne, Luca Giordano, Simon Vouet, and Lucas van Leyden.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1494, Rosso Fiorentino ranks 10Before him are Fuzûlî, Georgius Agricola, Pontormo, Bona Sforza, Jean Parisot de Valette, and Leo Africanus. After him are Lucas van Leyden, William Tyndale, Hans Sachs, Antonio de Mendoza, Saitō Dōsan, and Oronce Finé. Among people deceased in 1540, Rosso Fiorentino ranks 5Before him are John Zápolya, Parmigianino, Thomas Cromwell, and Angela Merici. After him are Francesco Guicciardini, Juan Luis Vives, Tristão da Cunha, Federico II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, Guillaume Budé, Joos van Cleve, and Tomé Pires.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Rosso Fiorentino ranks 748 out of 5,161Before him are Pope Leo VI (914), Pope Vigilius (500), Joachim of Fiore (1135), Pope Felix IV (480), Poliziano (1454), and Giovanni Schiaparelli (1835). After him are Luca della Robbia (1399), Emilio Segrè (1905), Atia (-85), Vincenzo Galilei (1520), Domenico Modugno (1928), and Lino Ventura (1919).

Among PAINTERS In Italy

Among painters born in Italy, Rosso Fiorentino ranks 57Before him are Domenichino (1581), Giulio Romano (1499), Pietro da Cortona (1596), Pisanello (1395), Francesco Guardi (1712), and John William Waterhouse (1849). After him are Luca Giordano (1634), Agostino Carracci (1557), Lorenzo Lotto (1480), Lorenzo di Credi (1459), Jacopo Bellini (1396), and Antonio del Pollaiolo (1429).